Tag Archives: htaccess

My original intention in terms of a security article was to publish a post that talked about Drupal’sTaxonomy Access Control (TAC) module. As mentioned within my Drupal Configuration post, TAC is the module I selected for access management of the content in my architectedfutures.net site. My thought was that it might be helpful to detail how I was configuring TAC according to how I wanted to manage access to the various content items on the site for different audiences. Public content, administrative content, content reserved for registered users, etc. However, as I’ve spent time on the site recently, building up content, I’ve also been keeping an eye on how the site is being discovered and accessed by anonymous users. This is prior to any serious advertising or publication of the site URL. (Until I get to a certain critical mass of useful content, I’m not actively trying to drive people to the site. I want to wait a bit for that.) What I’ve seen though is a discovery process based on web crawlers. People and software that go out of their way to make it their business to find new sites and new content on the web. This seems to break down into a few general categories. Continue reading →

Having made a decision on the website software (Drupal), and a choice for a web hosting provider (A2Hosting), it’s time to do some detail planning for how to lay down the software on the hosting framework. And, there are a number of options. Since I’m using a shared hosting solution, the first decision is whether or not to have the Drupal software installed and managed using A2Hosting’s auto-installer. That option would give me an easy “one click” installation process; but it also removes detail control of the configuration from my hands, so that isn’t the option I want. I actually want to follow a route that gives me more detail control over how the site will be configured. Of course, that also means I have to take more responsibility for getting the job done. Continue reading →